SLEEPING BEAUTY

The Sleeping Beauty Game is an example of an early American game
designed, produced and distributed by an individual, in this case, Hetty L.
Staveley.

Contents of the game include a set of round numbered wood markers, a quantity
of blank blue counters, and a set of seven hand–made pictorial player disks
with Princes on one side and birds or flowers on the backs. As there is no
surviving instruction sheet, one can only imagine the exact nature of the
game — perhaps a lottery–type game.

Pictured below are illustrations from books about Sleeping Beauty in the
Lilly Library.

SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE LILLY LIBRARY COLLECTION

La Belle au Bois Dormant, or Sleeping Beauty, was based on a Greek Myth,
according to Andrew Lang, a noted 19th century mythology and fairy tale
scholar.

This illustration, as well as the image of Cendrillion on the previous
page, are from an early translation of Perrault's Histoires, ou,
Contes du Temps Passé, Avec des Moralitez, originally published
in 1679.

Translated from the German by Lucy Crane and done
into pictures by Walter Crane. Household Stories: From the
Collection of the Brothers Grimm. New York: R. Worthington,
1883.

"At last he came to the tower and opened the door of the little room
where Rosamond lay."